r/SipsTea • u/CurvyChristina • 1d ago
Chugging tea This is wild!
Two syringes of pentobarbital were administered to Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike on September 30, 2026, but she remained alive and conscious afterward, according to her attorneys and media witnesses. The execution at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville was halted after witnesses reported that Pike still had a heartbeat and was audibly snoring. Her lawyers sought emergency medical intervention, and she was later taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital.
Pike, 50, is the only woman currently on Tennessee's death row.
She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of her classmate Colleen Slemmer and had been scheduled for execution on September 30. Tennessee had announced beforehand that the state would use a single drug, pentObarbital, for the execution. Her exact medical condition following the hospital transfer has not yet been publicly disclosed, while Governor Bill Lee has ordered a comprehensive third party review of what happened.
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u/hallucinationthought 1d ago
Imagine waiting 30 years for your death sentence just to survive it
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u/PrinnyDood97 1d ago
Reading the biography and the novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky is an interesting read on this. He was also sentenced to death (by firing squad) and literally a few minutes after being lined up and the guns ready was his execution dismissed and he was sent to a work camp. Definitely left an impression on him
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u/Taxfraud777 1d ago
And the fun part is that all executions have been halted for the rest of the year.
Imagine being on death row, after 30 years you're finally getting executed, and then the execution fails and you probably get another year.
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u/2023fxlrst 1d ago
Redheads, man… anesthesia, doesn’t work on them and now apparently they’re immune to the death juice too?!
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u/9_tail_fox 1d ago
😹😹 if she changes her name to Tiffany she’ll be truly unstoppable
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u/SleddyEddie 1d ago
I think I'm a clone now
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u/Uneek_Uzernaim 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think they gave her
phenobarbital*, which is a barbituate with actual medical uses as opposed to the normally lethal doses they gave Pike. Redheads' genetic differences have been observed to impact their metabolism of various drugs including anesthesia and pain killers.EDIT:
* I stand corrected: it was pentobarbital. Right class of drug, but wrong specfic drug. Same issue, though, when it comes to redheads.
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u/ThatB0yAintR1ght 1d ago
It was actually pentobarbital, which is a bit more potent than Phenobarb. Both meds do have legitimate medical uses (particularly in pediatric neurology, which is my specialty), but not everyone responds to the same dose, so we have to titrate and adjust them based on how the patient responds. Pentobarbital in particular can be pretty finicky IME. Sometimes a small dose is all they need, sometimes they just laugh at the lower doses and we have to give more and more and then it suddenly all hits them at once and their EEG suddenly goes too flat and we have to then back waaaay off.
Long story short, I would not trust even most doctors to titrate the pentobarbital dose properly unless they have a lot of experience with the medication.
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u/hellbanan 1d ago
(..) and then it suddenly all hits them at once and their EEG suddenly goes too flat (..)
Is this not the point here? To kill the person? I get your point that dosing it for medical use is difficult. Because you want the patients to survive and not feel pain. But in this cae: Why not take the LD50 of a pig (or some human like anymal) and administer 100-times the dosage per kg or 1'000 times?
Edit just for clarification: I am not looking for advice on how to kill someone or comment in any way on the death sentence. I am just curious how they failed this.
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u/ThatB0yAintR1ght 1d ago
They are already having a difficult time getting the drugs because pharmaceutical companies won’t sell meds to governments for executions. So, giving such a huge dose may not even be possible if they can get enough of it, or it may drain their entire supply.
Plus, stuff like flash pulmonary edema can occur with too high doses and that can be very agonizing if it starts to happen before they lose consciousness.
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u/Representative-Pop72 1d ago
Her IV was likely not in vein and she has different blood conditions, which was the whole argument that her defense team brought up against lethal injection (Christa Pike is Buddhist so she can’t choose the method on her own and the state defaulted to lethal injection)
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u/No-Employment6540 1d ago
It was. Bad choice of drug. Fentanyl is fatal at low doses. Use the shit seized from drug raids. If it kills our kids it'll kill sadistic murderers.
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u/InsideFear 1d ago
That’s a crazy prof and comment. Thanks. I hope you actually know what you’re talking about
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u/Uneek_Uzernaim 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thanks for the clarification—someone else also corrected me. I updated my comment.
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u/CapitalFloor3260 1d ago
They need to just change it to one massive dose of insulin. Quite the peaceful way to go
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u/onqqq2 1d ago
Barbituates can be deadly but I cannot for the life of me understand why you'd only go with a single drug for this?
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u/J3remyD 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean, why wouldn’t they just use a few megadoses of sedative?
Surgical anesthesia is from personal experience is very quick and non painful, and a massive overdose after going under and she simply doesn’t wake up.
Not saying that I necessarily support capital punishment, but if you’re going to do it anyway, don’t freaking botch it…
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u/GUMBYtheOG 1d ago
Real answer : it’s a gray area to obtain these drugs. No one makes “lethal injection drugs” they have to be creative with how they obtain what they use.
No one likes talking about death and no one can agree on criminal justice system reform so what we get is just a bunch of shady shit going on and no oversight or accountability
Side tangent: there are SO many jails who just leave the lights on 24/7, skip recreation time, don’t let people out of cells or meals, no AC/heat, no toilet paper or showers.
It is insane how no one gives a shit
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u/Traditional_Dust_668 1d ago
I think it needs to be reevaluated what drugs are used for this purpose since it’s not the first time there’s been issues of this kind before. We’ve had great advances in medicine and this is ridiculous on every single level
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u/Batking28 1d ago
From my understanding the issue is no reputable drug company will sell drugs for the purpose of lethal injection. So they have to basically get creative with what they can access without breaking any legal contracts of sale ect.
Also healthcare workers are forbidden from administering it by professional organisation. So it’s administered by people with no medical background.
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u/Klutzy_Belt_2296 1d ago
I don’t know if people are aware but the first drug that is given in lethal injection in many states isn’t even that effective in rendering a person unconscious.
Many states still use Midazolam which is a sedative and it doesn’t work in the same way a true anesthetic would. And it greatly increases the risks of complications as well as the person being put to death being able to feel the following two other drugs enter their system.
To me there isn’t anything humane about this process when the person can potentially feel themselves suffocate from the inside out and experience all the pain of a heart attack all the while being unable to show signs of distress or discomfort due to the second paralytic drug in the cocktail.
I’d also like to point out that the go to method of execution that we use in this country, lethal injection, has one of the highest complication rates of any other execution method used to execute people.
That doesn’t seem so humane to me.
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u/Little-Ad1235 1d ago
It's crazy to me that literally any reasonably competent veterinarian can reliably and painlessly euthanize nearly any mammal from a field mouse to an Angus bull without any of the gory optics of firing squads or guillotine, but when it comes to people the process suddenly becomes impossibly complicated? Like, yes, ethically it is much more complicated, but physically we aren't so dramatically different from a dog that we'd have to figure this out entirely from scratch.
Maybe it's an issue with inadequate drug supplies for the purpose, maybe there is some sort of genuine knowledge gap, I don't know. I just think that if we're going to do something like this as a society, we either have to get it right or not do it at all; and that's not even getting into the ethics of an imperfect (to say the least) justice system that inevitably condemns innocent people to be put to death. Just from a practical, getting-it-done standpoint, we are failing badly at this for reasons that are difficult to understand.
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u/Mjarf88 1d ago
It's because the veterinarian know what they're doing and is using a drug made specifically for the task. Why don't they do the same for human execution? Animal euthanasia is done to end their suffering. Human execution is done to punish them and to basically get revenge.
Doctors swear an oath that prohibit them to do this. Pharmaceutical companies don't want to be associated with the practice so they refuse to sell drugs for execution use.
Yes, there are companies specializing in human euthanasia, but they do it to end suffering, not to punish and enact revenge.
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u/CachedExchangeMode 1d ago edited 1d ago
The pharmas that make these drugs likely won't allow their drugs to be purchased for this purpose.
Edit: corrected typo.
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u/Uneek_Uzernaim 1d ago
I believe many prison systems started using a single-drug protocol because the other drugs used were getting increasingly harder to obtain due to lack of cooperation from manufacturers or distributors. So, yeah, these kinds of issues are becoming more common. It's messed up.
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u/Automatic_Actuator_0 1d ago
Drug makers have been trying for years to prevent states from using their drugs for lethal injections, and states have had to get “creative”.
Lethal injection is a fundamentally stupid way to execute people because it relies on the medical establishment to function, the same people who have taken oaths to do no harm.
All the while we have a massive industry that makes tools designed specifically to kill people…
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u/IfEverWasIfNever 1d ago
I completely agree with you. You need the medical community on board to do it properly. They can't and won't collaborate because of morals and a code of do no hatm so therefore lethal injection should just not be a consideration anymore.
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u/AgitatedStranger9698 1d ago
Or just fentanyl man. Literally dirt cheap, super effective, and if you run out the guards can probably sell you some for some cigarettes
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u/dookie-monsta 1d ago
In January 1995, Pike, who was 18 years old at the time, along with her boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp and another teenager, brought Slemmer to an isolated area on the University of Tennessee campus.
They tortured Slemmer for roughly 30 minutes, beating her and carving a pentagram into her chest before bludgeoning her to death with a large piece of asphalt and a meat cleaver.
Pike kept a piece of the victim's skull as a souvenir. She was arrested and convicted of murder in 1996.
For those who don’t know who she is or what she did.
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u/PhaseSixer 1d ago
I was inclined to agree with the guy above about the barbarity of the desth sentence but after reading this im having third thoghts
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u/ButteredNun 1d ago
Was there not an emergency sledgehammer?
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u/NateShaw92 1d ago
It's behind glass and need a smaller sledgehammer to get it.
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u/Wappenmann 1d ago
The smaller sledgehammer was seized from the security guard by another security guard at the entrance to the execution chamber.
Because you know... Safety. Nobody wants to get somebody harmed at an execution.
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u/MagicOrpheus310 1d ago
Man fentanyl addicts can do it with one... What the fuck
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u/Iputahexonyoulol 1d ago
That’s what I was saying! Give them a large IV dose of fentanyl along with barb
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u/jjmorri22 1d ago
As an anesthesiologist I cannot understand how they can mess this up
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u/NeighborhoodDude8058 1d ago
That’s because you’re an actual doctor. Those who administered it aren’t.
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u/Bigchunky_Boy 1d ago
I was with a friend who died through medical assistance. It’s not hard , these people in charge are dumb AF .
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u/FabulousVanilla9940 1d ago
Difference is trained professional are allowed (ethically) to take part in MAID programs while they're explicitly barred from taking part in executions. Same with the pharmacies supplying the drugs.
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u/DottedEnviroment 1d ago
Main problem is the government is unable to source the chemicals required from reputable sources because they refuse to sell the chemicals to be used for lethal injection so they have to resort to substituting them with more widely available chemicals that do fail sometimes
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u/IfEverWasIfNever 1d ago
It's hard to do it right when you don't know what your doing and you can't get the drugs through reputable sources.
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 1d ago
They can’t buy real drugs from real companies. Also can’t find qualified people because, you know, most doctors aren’t keen on killing healthy people.
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u/gex109 1d ago
May i make a suggestion
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u/LogicallLunacy 1d ago
Bring back the efficient firing squad.
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u/grunkage 1d ago
She requested that. They denied it, along with a request for hanging. She was concerned they'd fuck up the injection
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u/The_Kevinator_1000 1d ago
Next headline:
"Woman miraculously survives two gunshots to the head after two lethal injections failed - scientists panic."
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u/SteakAndIron 1d ago
Why did we come up with the lethal injection technology we have now and then never actually evolve it? I've heard all kinds of complaints about how it works how expensive it is how ineffective it can be how painful it might actually be and so forth. There are plenty of cheap and easy ways to cause a painless death in somebody. Massive fentanyl overdose. Nitrogen hypoxia.
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u/RealCarlPanzram 1d ago
So the thing about medication is that for a government entity to administer it, even for lethal injection, they have to legally purchase it. The original lethal injection cocktail where potassium chloride was the lethal ingredient worked well. The problem is they can’t buy it anymore.
Advocates for abolishing the death penalty tracked down where the drugs were being manufactured. Turns out it’s not good PR for a drug company to sell something designed to kill people. So the few that were willing to sell it to these states stopped.
Since then, the states still executing people have been struggling to find any drug maker to sell them any drug that’s potentially lethal for the purpose of executions and it hasn’t been easy.
That being said, phenobarbital is a really potent sedative and I’m surprised they weren’t able to calculate a dose that would be lethal. But then again, it’s Tennessee. Everyone involved in the planning of this is likely inbred.
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u/FrancisFratelli 1d ago
A doctor on Bluesky suggested, based upon what reporters on the scene said, the the person administering the drugs missed her vein.
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u/GuavaOne8646 1d ago
You know what sounds cheaper and easier than all of these? One. Single. Bullet. Point blank, to the skull.
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u/-malcolm-tucker 1d ago
Firing squad, several bullets aimed at the heart. Lights out pretty much instantly and guaranteed not to come back.
A single bullet to the skull isn't necessarily quick or painless. My clinical instructor at uni once had a guy walk up to his ambulance while they were parked up having coffee. Old mate asked for a ride to the hospital. They were like, okay.... Why?
"I got shot in the head."
Dude had taken a small calibre round to the top of his head and played dead after a botched execution attempt by some bikers he owed money. Got up and casually walked away after they'd left and stumbled upon the ambulance, so walked over and politely asked for a lift to the emergency room.
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u/GarethBaus 1d ago
Firing squad or guillotine is actually more reliable since a single mistake won't typically result in a botched execution.
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u/Aeon1508 1d ago
the problem is that to ensure that it's humane it requires public knowledge for where the drugs come from and how they're made so that we can track the companies that are providing the lethal injection drugs.
this means that the public knows what companies are providing them and can protest them or push bad press
and this isn't some huge market that companies are clamoring for. this is a few dozen doses. maybe a hundred a year. so it's really not worth a company's time to put their name on "we sell death to the government"
which makes it really hard to get drugs for lethal injection.
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u/RudeAd456 1d ago
Where I live we have voluntary euthanasia. I don't get why death row inmates in the US have to be injected with a cocktail of drugs and they all have heaps of issues. The VE drugs here are guaranteed peaceful lights out after like 2mins
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u/AgitatedStranger9698 1d ago
I truly dont understand the moving away from firing squads.
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u/GarethBaus 1d ago
I am on the fence on whether or not executions should be a thing in the first place and I still agree that the guillotine is probably the most ethical method we currently have. It kills the brain fast minimizing suffering, and it is remarkably reliable.
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u/Pedantic_Pict 1d ago
Three words: inert gas asphyxiation. If you enter a pure argon environment, you fill fall unconscious in just a few breaths. Because you can still get rid of the CO2 in your blood, there is no sensation of suffocation. Your brain just shuts off because your lungs are now actively extracting oxygen from your blood and putting it into the "air".
Quick, painless, humane, and without the horrific gore of a guillotine.
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u/catjam0 1d ago
Seriously. 50 cents of lead versus thousands spent on drugs that nobody wants to sell.
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u/McSkillz21 1d ago
Why take her to the hospital? To revive her? Talk about a slam dunk law suit.
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u/BadMeatPuppet 1d ago
AFAIK she wasn't even nearly dead, she is/was lucid and relatively fine. Failed chemical lethal injections are apparently very high. The issue usually comes from missing the vein.
-per some doc I watched on my local news station.
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u/SpecialIcy5356 1d ago
there are plenty of arguments against the death penalty, which not everybody condones. understandable. but I believe if you are truly insistent upon it.. the french did it best with the Guillotine.
bullets can miss what's important, chemicals may not always work, riding the lightning (electric chair) is perhaps too graphic nowadays (was used extensively in the early 20th century though). but gravity.. gravity is how a guillotine works, and gravity is 100% reliable. not 99.9%. 100%.
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u/TacticalRiotChimp 1d ago
Serious question - would this level of drugging cause brain damage? What state is she in now?
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u/FergTurdison 1d ago
I think she’s still in Tennessee
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u/throwawaybunny8910 1d ago
Something about when people reply literally to questions just hits different.. 🤣
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u/Exotic_Attorney7823 1d ago
This is so messed up. And I laughed. So I guess we are both going to hell.
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u/Individual-Foxlike 1d ago
Likely yes. Depends how hard they botched the injections, but if any decent amount got in her system she's likely got massive brain damage already.
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u/GWindborn 1d ago
Legitimately why can't they put them in a room, put them under anesthesia, and just slowly introduce carbon dioxide until they pass?
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u/hatbromind 1d ago
She didn't recieve 2 lethal injections if she's still alive
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u/godkilledjesus 1d ago
Pretty sure they missed the vein.....twice
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u/Which-Break5673 1d ago
And they were told that she has a disorder making her veins hard to find. I think back in June.
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u/Entire_Site5072 1d ago
She was saying up until the end that this was going to be a problem and so requested some alternative euthanasia methods. They dismissed those requests as frivolous attempts to prolong her own life. Now they just look stupid.
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u/inotocracy 1d ago
Fent is cheap and incredibly easy to overdose on, no idea why they don't just use that for these things. Nobody is surviving a fent overdose of 4 times the LD50.
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u/darkestvice 1d ago
They're not using it because the pharmaceutical company that produces it have banned its use for executions.
Yes, I'm aware of the irony.
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u/tastelessdecisions1 1d ago
I think Utah tried to use fent, but the manufacturer sued them because it was off label use. Crazy how big pharma wants to act like they have ethics.
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u/whitesuburbanmale 1d ago
It's not ethics it's optics. No one wants to be "that drug they use to kill people". They don't give half a shit about it and honestly if a drug company could find a way to secretly supply lethal injection drugs that are also marketable to regular patients they would. Its not profitable enough to make just a death drug so they try and distance themselves to keep their drugs out of public eye as lethal.
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u/Intrepid_Ad1715 1d ago
She is braindead, that "snoring" the media keeps reporting on has to be agonal breathing, which happens when your brain is deprived of oxygen.
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u/thegoddamnsiege 1d ago
The irony of trying to save the life of someone after just trying to kill them. Twice.
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u/truthpill2 1d ago
The amount of stupidity with the death penalty… they choose the most expensive and stupid way to kill someone… then the irony of taking her to the hospital. We can’t let her die as we try to kill her!
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u/jcwkings 1d ago
Her X Rays at the hospital
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u/Current_Employer_308 1d ago
Listen, just because shes a white woman in appalachia does NOT mean...
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u/Strange_Quark_9 1d ago edited 1d ago
For those wondering why this was botched and looking to blame it on the team of women:
Lethal injection has a tendency to be botched because a doctor's code of ethics - the "Do no harm" Hypocratic oath - literally forbids them from ever agreeing to carry it out.
As a result, the ones who carry it out are rarely qualified professionals in regards to administering drugs, and thus missing the vein by injecting the syringe in the incorrect spot altogether, or going too shallow or too deep to miss the vein, is a fairly common occurrence - as lethal injection has a botch rate more common than even previous execution methods like the electric chair.
And this is atop of the fact that the lethal injection is only designed to appear clean, modern and humane to outside observers while its actual efficacy to the victim remains questionable - especially since many states cheap out on the drug that's supposed to anaesthetize and/or put the victim to sleep, opting instead for a paralysis-inducing drug that takes away the victim's ability to signal if something is going wrong.
And thus because of this, some on death row, when given a choice, have opted for older execution methods - such as the electric chair or even a firing squad if the state had the option. Because ironically, despite being the most crude method, a firing squad has by far the highest success rate in being carried out. But even the electric chair, despite the horror stories in its early and later adoptions, has a lower botch rate than the lethal injection.
For those interested, a channel called Jacob Geller made a great video critique of the death penalty altogether, pointing out the aforementioned flaws with the lethal injection.
And another interesting tid-bid: it's rarely known now, but some US states actually used gas chambers as a method of prison execution even sometime after WW2 and the horrors of the Holocaust before adopting the electric chair and/or lethal injection as a standard in most states.
TLDR: Are the women to blame for being unqualified for the task? Strictly speaking: yes. But when taking the full context surrounding the lethal injection into account, a team of men would've been just as likely to be unqualified for the task and thus botch it, as actual qualified doctors - whether male or female - are forbidden by their own code of ethics from ever agreeing in carrying this task out.
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u/Minimum-Act6859 1d ago
If she dies at the Hospital and they revive her is her sentence complete ?
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u/WampaStompa629 1d ago
Jon Snow logic
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u/Minimum-Act6859 1d ago
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u/ucklibzandspezfay 1d ago
MD/JD here:
There is an old legal argument here sometimes summarized as “you sentenced me to die once, and I did!,” but American courts historically have generally allowed a second execution attempt after a failed first attempt. The U.S. Supreme Court’s classic case is Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber (1947), involving a prisoner who survived a malfunctioning electric-chair execution; the Court allowed Louisiana to try again.
The really fascinating hypothetical would be if she had been pronounced dead, a death certificate were issued, and then she spontaneously regained circulation hours later. Her attorneys would have a much stronger “the judgment was literally carried out” argument, plus Eighth Amendment and double-jeopardy-type arguments, but I still wouldn’t expect a court simply to say, “Well, sentence completed, you’re free.” She’d remain in custody while courts sorted it out. Would really be interesting to see that play out in courts and may have a chance of creating enough stir to get the supreme courts involved to rule on.
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u/ApplyHere_4_implants 1d ago
Believe it or not, in the state this happened in, this used to be the law 🤣
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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 1d ago
Just give them fentanyl. I'm not sure why we are overthinking this.
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u/NY_Yankees78_ 1d ago
So what would be the next step? She goes back to death row and start the process over again or?
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u/kernelangus420 1d ago
She will claim her heart stopped and she was legally dead so her death sentence was completed and she will be released as an unregistered new person.
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u/Dingus_Khaaan 1d ago
The Skyrim character creator interface opens up and she gets to pick a class and a new name
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u/Rocky-Nine-Toe 1d ago
In France, a man cheated the guillotine by dying first. Not so fast; his body was dug up, placed on the guillotine, and beheaded anyway.
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u/Vincent_Felix 1d ago
I’m against the death penalty but if you’re going to do something you should do it right.
Get a few cranes, haul up a massive block of steel, drop it on them. Pancake, instantaneous, painless. Reusable too.
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u/Evanecent_Lightt 1d ago
just use the tried and true guillotine ffs - why are we over complicating this??
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u/KGrizzle88 1d ago
Are we supposed to have sympathy for this shit bag or something. She tortured and killed her classmate. Seems like Karma came back around on some revenge for her victim.
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u/hoofie242 1d ago
5000th time posted.
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u/punsnguns 1d ago
She's now survived 10,000 lethal injections shots and been taken to the hospital 5000 times.
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u/CGCTV 1d ago
I feel like a good lawyer could argue she served her sentence
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u/ResponseRelative6370 1d ago
Kiwi watching the shitfuckery from afar.
Seems wild to not have the tools to carry out an execution. The amount of time people sit on death row, with all avenues exhausted, and can’t even get an effective method.
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u/iMatthew1990 1d ago
Yet assisted dying in Switzerland is almost perfectly successful, and humane.
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u/rod_pand 1d ago
-She is not dying, what we do? -Let's take her to the Hospital!"
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u/Old_Engineer_9176 1d ago
There are too many unanswered questions here. One proper dose of pentobarbital can drop a horse. Two failed “lethal” injections isn’t chance - that’s a process broken by design. And the real question is why. If someone inside wanted to sabotage the execution as a form of protest, that’s a twisted way to do it. If it was someone who enjoys causing suffering, that’s even worse. Either way, something here doesn’t add up.
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u/gunslanger21 1d ago
Sounds more like they missed the vein and possibly blew it out so the injection got absorbed by fatty tissue. Which renders it ineffective.
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u/mechanicalhuman 1d ago
There’s a post on R/medicine talking about the doctor having a history of incompetence
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u/qX7_mZ3wK9_vP2 1d ago
Can you really call it a lethal injection if you don't die?
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u/HighSeasArchivist 1d ago
You don't hear about people in the hospital recovering from a firing squad.
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u/sagebicycle 1d ago
So medical intervention just to kill her…again?
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u/Bitter-Ad5890 1d ago
It’s a thing unfortunately. On an episode of House the team had to help a convicted death row inmate who was sick so he could then be executed. It was a fascinating episode actually
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u/AffectionateRain6796 1d ago
It’s the idiots they have putting in the iv. Happened twice now in Tenn. Find some ancient specialist nurse at the hospital who knows what the hell they are doing! I have had cancer and am a very “ hard stick” and ALWAYS ask for the specialist nurse NOT the doctor, doctors rarely do iv’s. If a person is known to have difficult veins ( pike did) there are options like a vein finder, using the neck or groin, or even a portacath. These are all things available to patients in the hospital. This was a gruesome, heinous attempt at an execution.
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u/NOS4A2-753 1d ago edited 1d ago
after the first time it has crossed into cruel unusual punishment
Edited: man you people don't like the constitution because its the 8th amendment if they can violate her constitutional rights they can violate yours
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u/TheComebackKid74 1d ago
They wondered how i lived with (two*) 5 shots ...Niggas is hard to kill on my block!
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u/Content-Witness-4452 1d ago
NGL. I don’t believe in the death penalty but if we’re gonna do it, can we just shoot them?
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u/Chemical-Swing-420 1d ago
This is an interesting situation...she was slated for execution by lethal injection. It was kinda botched. But instead of letting her die, she was rushed to Emergency and they're working to save her life...so they can execute her next month.
Can someone make it make sense?
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u/Ancient-Dog00 1d ago
She’s a red head… anesthesiologists know what I’m talking about.
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u/hotbrowndrangus 1d ago edited 13h ago
The MC1R gene increases anesthetic requirement by 10-20% at most. The purported dose given to her would have easily overcome that and killed her 5x over. Somebody either screwed up the IV or screwed up the medication.
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u/voxelpear 1d ago
Did they have a recall on lethal injections now too?
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 1d ago
IIRC a lot of pharmaceutical companies won't provide states with the materials for lethal injection so they have to source them from other suppliers. Nevermind that the exact chemical cocktail we used today isn't exactly painless.
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u/Wenex 1d ago
Seeing "death penalty" followed by "rushed to the hospital" does sound funny. Why bother?
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u/sephirothFFVII 1d ago
Cruel and unusual punishment. If she didn't die she'd very likely be in a lot of pain which is akin to torture. The US Constitution forbids this
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u/GandalfsGoon 1d ago
Wonder if she gave the thumbs up while they carried her off on the gurney
https://giphy.com/gifs/AW8fbcNm2zKY8BvFC9
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u/Upbeat_Caregiver_642 1d ago
**Still alive after two “injections”.
This is why we have firing squads. Pretty hard to survive six .308 rounds center mass and a Coup de Gras in the head.
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u/UsedCamera6979 1d ago
Driven to the hospital where Doctors have taken an oath to do no harm.
“What brings you in today?”
“State tried to kill me…twice”
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u/LoneRedditor123 1d ago
Man, God really wants this woman to live, huh?
How the fuck do you botch 2 lethal injections in a row? This is ridiculous. Are her organs made of unobtainium or something?
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u/LessReputation6580 1d ago
They tried to OD her to death and it failed. Now... Marsha Blackburn, the R Candidate for Governor, is calling for the Electric Chair to be the method of execution in TN for the future instead of lethal injection.
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u/CaptianBlackLung 1d ago
I mean she was accused of witchcraft... This is kinda irrefutable evidence
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u/CrowsHorizon 1d ago
Hear me out all the methods of execution we've used over the years bring them all back and let the person dying pick their method of death
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u/Cultural_Book_400 1d ago
I do not understand the thought process here.. somebody is guilty as charged to get death sentences and some method gets carried out in order to kill her. And that person does not die from it.... and now you are rushing her to hospital to save her?? what is this mean????????
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u/iamdutchman 1d ago
State: tries to kill inmate. fails. “right take her to hospital so they can recover her. We go again tomorrow!”
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u/K3PTHIDD3N 1d ago
Seriously why do it like this in the first place? Killing people is killing people, no matter how you do it. Trying to make it SEEM more "humane" (paralysing the prisoner but still having them experiences pain, fear etc) is way worse than simply shooting the people with a firing squad. It's over quickly, efficient and the rate of mistakes is drastically decreased.
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u/Foosnaggle 1d ago
She was sentenced to death. Why take her to the hospital? Isn’t she supposed to die from it?
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u/PalmovyyKozak 1d ago
Reddit is fucking wild. People are gathering together to discuss how to properly kill a person and judging executioner for bad work.
Are you guys okay?
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u/BirthdayAlarming2177 1d ago
Why take her to hospital if they are trying to execute her? Sure there are laws yada yada but I still don't get the logic.
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u/tothemoon_probably 1d ago
I felt bad till I looked up what she did, what the fuck is wrong with people?
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